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21 Suffolk Parade Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2AE

23/01519/PRIORPrior Approval DeterminationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 October 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GivenDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Use Class E (commercial, business and service) to Use Class C3 (residential) to form 1no. house (resubmission 22/01958/P3OPA)

Received
1 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
College
  1. Received1 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.25 Sep
  4. Target30 Oct
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 32 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 21 Suffolk Parade Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2AE. Cheltenham has handled 516 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across College. We hold 2,075 applications in total for the GL50 postcode area.

92% of outline applications at Cheltenham Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GL50 2AE
Application type
Prior Approval Determination
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2023
Consultation expiry
5 October 2023
Consultation start
4 September 2023
Consultation end
25 September 2023
Neighbour consultation start
4 September 2023
Neighbour consultation end
25 September 2023
Last date for comments
5 October 2023
Target decision date
30 October 2023
Permission expires
6 October 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 September 2023
Site notice end
5 October 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12425916
Documents
10
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    1 Sep

    Change of use from Use Class E (commercial, business and service) to Use Class C3 (residential) to form 1no…

    This applicationApprovedOutline23/01519/PRIOR
  2. 2022
    2 Nov

    Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use from Use Class E…

    WithdrawnPrior Approval Offices to DwellingsPart of22/01958/P3OPA

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